On 14 February, from Waves. A dinner in Gaeta on Lungomare Caboto, with Chef Raffaele Lenti's kitchen: fish from the Formia auction, beef aged in the Maturmeat® cabinet and cooked in the Josper, and a list of more than five hundred labels.

What an evening

The dining room is deliberately plain: tables without cloths, low lighting, the charcoal grill in view. This is not the restaurant of heart-shaped decorations — it is the restaurant of every other night, on an evening when the kitchen works to a single menu and the room keeps a different rhythm.

People who eat here on 14 February usually come back at other times of the year: that is why the evening is built around the food rather than the staging.

The evening menu

The Valentine's menu changes every year, because it is built on what the season gives and on what the auction lands in those days. It is published on this page in January— with the dishes, how to book and the terms of confirmation.

In the meantime, if you would like a sense of the kitchen: the fish from the Formia auction, the grilled meat and the daily menu.

Book

It is the evening of the year that fills up first. Seats are limited to one dining room and requests start coming in from January: it is worth moving as soon as the menu is published.

Dinner from 7pm, on Lungomare Giovanni Caboto in Gaeta. Free car park in front of the restaurant, with more than fifty spaces.